Friday, August 28, 2009

...at the Roadhouse, Sirius Ch. 62: "...and you don't know it, but I came over tonight, there was somebody's car parked outside...Damn my eyes...Damn this heart of mine, I drove off into the night...Some fools never learn, play with the fire and you're gonna get burned...it's only love when you're loved in return...."Despite his pop leanings, Steve Wariner was one of my favorite singers from the '80s, largely because of that one song, a No. 1 hit the week of Nov. 2, 1985. I guess you could say "Some Fools Never Learn" was such a great song that it made up for a lot of that. ;-) But I also liked the earlier hits from Steve's MCA days. "What I Didn't Do" and "Heart Trouble" were particular favorites. I'd like to have seen him do more in that vein, but still his pop-flavored tunes weren't THAT bad.I should add, though, that for all I know he did do more traditional music with the unreleased album cuts on those early MCA records. By the time I started getting into that older music all those albums were out of print. After all, to hear the 1998 No. 2 hit "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" no one would have ever guessed that the Wariner album from which it came -- Burnin' the Roadhouse Down -- was one of the more traditional-sounding country albums of '98, and that year saw albums from George Strait, Alan Jackson and Randy Travis, who of course have been keepers of the flame ever since they've been on the scene. (And if you don't have that particular Steve Wariner cd, I highly recommend it...)

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About Me

I am a very opinionated guy, Texan and quite proud of it. I lean toward the right politically but have a few libertarian tendencies that my conservative brothers and sisters might not agree with. I like guns, old country music and a lot of other things.

Essential Reading

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty -- so dear to men, so dear to the enlightened legislator -- and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.-- Cesare Beccaria, in On Crimes And Punishments, later quoted by Thomas Jefferson

Echo

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.-- Alexander Hamilton